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Mt. Vernon Republican (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1854), 1860-03-17

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i. ...... 1! Wv .- I""" nt mm MWw mm n Me- f MOUNT VERNON, OHIO, SATUlltiAY MORNING, MARCH 17, i860. VOL. VI. NO w 'i : i 4 a. f ! 4 I. Ai v v n i' Pictures in- the Coals. Sitting by myplonant Bra light, ' In tbo dark and dull Dooouibor, Making pictures In tho ashes Of a slowly dying ember ' Lol from out tho ashos rising, , Touched at by die sunset gloami, Is tbo villn-go of iny childhood That I oversee in droams. Thorobotwccn tho rovri of moplo, i Is tho rood an! gram grown street; Thoro, bohind tho shadowy branohos, Stand tho houses, plain and noat. Thoro, bonpath tha, xlne oovorod porches, Arc forma that never more will oomo, For those hoarts havo oeasod their boating, And those Hps are cold and dumb. But upon the sunny hill-aids I Whoro tho villugo ohurch doos stand, The Bhadow of tho spire ia pointing As tho finger of a guiding hand-Wandering ever In the graro-yard From morning rod till sot of sun, 1 Pointing whoro wo, too, shall slumber MThon our littlo life is dono. Yonder U tho dim, bluo mountain ; Thoro upon the plain below, Stands tho farm-houso, with Ua window Blaiing in tho aunaot glow. ' A mist now rising from tho valley i . Shuts the blue stroam from my sight, But I know upon Ha aurfaco Float tho water lillics whito. Tondor are. the clovor moadows, Whoro the twinkling air is soon; There my happy little school-mates, Flaying oh tho villigo groon 1 Forovor ohildion still I lovo them Tears ore filling fast my oyos Theburning embor now has fallen; My rillago in the ashes lios. 0,iu vain wo'ro.ovor striving Af tor things boyond our reachj Littlo hooding all tholossons Lifo's most simple things may toach ; Littlo thinking whatraro pleasures Simple joys may bring our souls-Even fading, dying embers Even picturos in tho coals. THE CABIN1 BOY. A SHIMASTEB'S STORY. On my way across the Sound I (til in with two old sea captains John Streeter and Asa Morton with whom I bad some slight acquaintance. Captain Streeter was about three score, and had followed tha sea during most of his lilb. Morton was considerably younger, but still a seaman of much experience. The subject of the abolition ol flogping to our navy came up in Course ol tOTvr-rstoa and fjapt. Morton expressed himself very decidedly in favor nf that timo honored institution, the cat-o'-oinc-tnils. r i " I am not prepared t,o say,;1 remarked Capt. Streeter, in reply J' that tho condition of our man-o'-wars-men will be in every caso benefitted by the abolition o( Hogging, though I am suvo that it might be so. I mean that the officers have it in their power to do away with all kinds of punishment. I mean ol course, for all such offences as aro usually punished on ship-board." " For my part,"' returned Morton, " I shouldn't caro to take command of a ship, if tho power of punishing refractory seamen as I thought proW wero taken from me." "Well," paid .Capt. Streeter, "I used to think just so, In fa', there wero but few masters more passionate or severe than I was. Men used to run away from wo, and on moro than one occasion iny life has IvJon in danger from the violence; of men whom I had abused. . I used the cat .and the ropo'a end almost as freely as I used my tongue ; and I usod to wonder how it . happened that I always had the luck to got, such bad men. When I wap aTxmt forty years of ago I look . .nmmand of the slim Petersham, bho was an-old cralt,.0ni. had seen full as much sorv-,' ica it's Bb capable of seeing with eafety. ' But her ovrters wore willing to trust a valua-' ble cargo in her, so I wouldn't refuse to trust ' myself. We were bound to Liverpool, and nothing unusual happened until about tho ' -eighth day out, when wo ran foul of a small icoberg. It was early in the morning, beforo sunriso.and not above six or eight feet of ico was above water.it having nearly all beon melted in tho warm waters of the Gulf Stroam. I did not think we had sustained much inju ry, for the shock was slight; but I was very angry and gave the look-out a severo punishment, without stopping to enquire whether he could have seen tho berg in time to escape it. C , My cabin-boy was named Jack Withers. He was fourteen years plcl and this was his first voyage. I had taken him from a widowed mother, and haol promised her that I would see him well treated -that was, if he behaved himself. He was a bright, quick, intelligent fad, but I soon made myself boliev-that be bad an awful disposition. ' I fancied - that he was the most stubborn picoe of hue inanity I had ever come across. 1 made up . my mind be bad. never been properly governed, and resolved to break him in. I told him I would break his temper before -I had done ' with him. Ia reply he told me I might kill him ii I liked ; and I floggod him with the end of the mizzen-top-gal!ant halliards till he could hardly stand. I asked him if he" bad got enough, and he told me I might flog him more if I wished'it. I felt a strong luclina- . tion to throw the boy overboard, but at that moment be stnggore'd hick against the mizzon-mvt from absolute weakness, and I left him. When I reasoned calmly about the boy's disposition, I wa9 forced to acknowledge that he was one of the smartest and most faithful lads I had ever seen. When I asked him to do anything he would be off like rocket but when I roughly ordered him to do it, then cam tha dtspositiov wilh" which' I found halt. , t , , Oue duy when it was vory near noon, I spoke to him and told him to go below and bring up my quadrant. He was looking over tbo quarter rail, and I knew be did not hear me, and the next time I spoke I rippod out 'an oath, and intimated if ho did not movo I would holphim. "I did'n hear ye," ho said, with an independent tono. ; . " No. words," said I, . , " I s'poso I can speak," he retorted, moving slowly towards the companion; way. His looks, words, and the slow, caroless manner in which ho . moved, fired me in a moment, and I grasped him by the collar. " Speak to me again like that, and I'll flog you within an inch of your life," said I fierce- ly. " , . , " You can flog away," he replied, firm and undaunted as a rock. And I did flog him. I caught up the end of a rope, and beat bim until my arm fairly ached, but he never cvon winced. "How's that ?" said I. " There's a littlo more life in mo you'd better flog put," was (he reply. And I beat him again. I beat him till he sank .from my hand against the rail; and then I sent one of the men for my quadrant. When it came and I bad adjusted it for' my observation,, I found that the sun was already passed the meridian, and that I was too lato. this added fuel tq the fire of my madness, and quickly seizing tho lad by the collar, lied bim to the hatchway, and had the hatch taken off- I then thrust him down andisworo I would keep him there till his stubbornness was broken. ; The hatch was then put on, and I went into tho cabin. I suffered a good deal that afternoon,, not with any compunctions for what I had done, :but with, my own temper and bitterness. It mado me mad to thick I could not conquer. that boy that I could not broak down bis cool,:stern opposition. But I will do it," I said tp, myself, " by tho heav ens above me, I'll starve him into it, or be shall dio under the operation." . - After supper I went to the hatchway, and called out to him, but he ioturned Bio-no answer. So I closed the hatch and went away-at ten o'clock I called again ; I got no answer. I might have thought that the Hogging had taken away his senses, had not some. .of the men assured me that they bad beard ihiai, not an hour before, talking to hiinsolf. I diil not trouble bim again till morning., A f'.cr break fast I went to the hatchw ay and called out to him once more. I. "heard nothing from bim nor could I see him I had not eeen him since r, pt'uim down there. I called out several times but he would make no reply and yet the same men told me they had heard him talking that very morning. Ho seemed to be calling on then for help, but bo would not ask for me I meant to break him into it " He'll beg beforo he'll starve," I thought, and so determined to let him stay there. I sup posed that he bad cradled forward tothe foro-castle bulkhead, in order to make the sailors hear bim. Sumo of the men asked leavo to go down and look for him, but I refused. I threatened to punish the first man that dared ' down. . At noon I wont again, and as no am not answer me Ibis time, I resoJved that he should come to tho hatehway and ask for me ere I went any morq. . The, day passed away and when evening came again I began to foe start led. I thought of the many good qualities the bpy had, and of his widowed mother. . Ho had heen in the hold, thirty-six hoursand all of forty , without food or drink. Ho must bo too weak to cry out now. It was hard for me to give, up, but if ho died there from absoluto statvation, it might go harder with me still. So at length I made up my mind to go and see him., ..It was not quite sundown whon I had the batch taken off, and I jumped down upon the boxes alone. , A little way, forward I saw a, space where Jack might easily, havo , gone down, and to that point I drawled on my hands and knees. I called out there, but could got no.answer. A short distanco farther wos a. wide space, which I had entirely forgotten, but which 1 now remembered bad been loft open on account of a break in tho flooring of tho hold, which would havo let everything that might havo been stowed there rest directly upon the thin plank of tho ship. , To this place I made my, way, and looked down I heard the splashing of water, and thought I could detect a sound like the in coming of a tiny jet-or stroam. At first I could see nothing, but as soon as I became used to the dim light, I could distinguish the faint outlines of the boy at some distance bo-low roe. . Ho seemed to be sitting on the broken floor, with his feet stretched out against the cask. I called out to him and thought be looked up. " Jack, are you thore 7" And ho answered me in a faint, weary tono "Yes, help me ! ' For heaven's sake, help mef Bring men and bring lanternthe ship has sprung a leak !'' I hesitated, and bo added in a more eager lone "-lake haste I will try and hold it till you come back." ti t . I waited to bear no more, but nurnea on deck as soon as possible, and returned with a lantern and three men. I leaped down beside t!ie boy,' and could scarcely believe the evi dence of my own senses. , Three of the tim bers were completely worm-eaten to the very heart, and one of the outer planks bad been broken and would burst in any moment the boy might loave it, whose feet were braced gainst the cask before bim. Half dozen little jets of water were streaming in about bim, and he was wet to the skin. I saw that the plank must burst tbe moment the strain was removed from it, to I made my men brace thomVolves against it before I lifted him up. Other mci were called down with planks, and spikes and adzes, and with much care and trouble, we finally succeeded in stopping tho leak, and averting danger. Tho plank which had been stove' in. was about six feet long by eight Inches wido, and would have let in a stream of water of that capacity. It would have beon beyond our reach long cro we could have discovered ittnd would bavo sunk us in a very short time. .1 kuew it must be whero the icoberg struck us. Jack Withers was taken to tho cabin, and thore he managed to : tell his story, Shortly after I put him in tho bold he crawled forward, and when he became Used to .the dim glimmer that came through tha deed-lights looked about for a snug place to lie, for bis limbs wero sore. Ho went to sleep, and then he heard a faint sound, like water streaming through a small bole. He went to tho open place in the cargo, and looked down, and ho was sure that he saw a small jet of water springing up from tho ship's bottom, Ho Laped down, and in a few minutes found that tho timbers had given wholly away, and that the stream was increasing in -size. Ho placed bis hand upon the plank, and found it broken, and discovered that the pressure of the water without was pressing it inward.. He had enso enough to see that if it gained an inch moro, it must all go. and the ship be lost, and perhaps all bsnds perish. And Lo saw, too, that if he could keep tho broken plank in its plank in its place he might stop tho incoming flood. So be sat himself upon it, and braced his feet against the cask, and then called for help, But he was so far away, so low down, with such a dense mass of the cargo, about bim, that his voic6 scarcely reached other ears than his own. Some of the men heard hint but thought he was talking to himself. And there he sat, with his feet braced, for four-and twooty dreary hours, with the water spurting in tiny streams all over bim, drenching him to. the skin. He had thought several times 'of going to the hatchway and calling for help ; but he. know that the broken plank would be forced in If he left it, for he could ftel it heave beneath him. His strength was failing him his limbs were racked with pain but he would not give up. I asked him If ho should hbt hare given up if' I had not como as I did. He answered' that he ptMt not have done it while V irl life, in him. He said he thought not of himself 'ia was ready to die but be would save the rest if he'conld and he had saved us, surely saved us all from a watery grave." ' ' That boy lay sick almost unto death; but I nursed-him with my own hands nursed him. all through his delirium ; and when his reason returned, and he cdu'ld sit up and talk, I bo wed; my self before him, and humbly asked his pardon for all the wrong I had done bim. He threw his arms about ray neck, and -told me if I would bD good to him, he would neve r give me cause for offense ; and added as he sat up ogain ' I am not a coward I could n't b) a dog." ! - - : ;: From that hour I never forgot thono words ; and from that hour I havo never struck a blow on board my ship. - I mako tbem ' feel that they are men that I so regard them, and that I wish to make them as comfortable and happy as possible ; and I havo uot failed to gain their respect and confidence. I give no undue license, but make my Crew feel that they have a friend and superior in the: same person. For nino years I sailed in three different ships, with the same crew. A mart couldn't bo hired to loave mo savo for nn officer's berth. '.. And Jack Withers romained with me thir teen years. He was my cabin boy; o no of tho foremost hands; my second mate : and tho- la)t time ho sailed with me he refused tho command of a new barquo becauso he would not lo separated from me. But he is captain now, and one of the best this country ever afforded. Such, gentlomen, is my experience in government and discipline on shipboard."i ,. Senator Suwurd'n Speech. Tho following excellent condensation of tbe great speech of Senator. Seward in tho Senate .on Wednesday of last week, wo cut from tho National . Intelligencer. It presents tho salient points in the argument of the great Statesman : . Mr. Soward in the presence of a listening' auditory thronging all parts of the gallery. . Ho commenced bis speech by stating that it would bo his misfortuno and not his fault if, ;n seeking -to intorpret tha fevorish dreams which now disturb the country, he should tend to foment rather than allay the national excitement. It would be a source of shame as well of sorrow if tho American peoplo co'd hot.combine prudenco.witb humanity, in iljcir conduct concerning tho one disturbing subject of slavery. AVhorercr slavery.: exists (unless it be for crime) there must of necessity arise, in every discussion relating to that institution, ques tion of its rightfulness or wrongfulness. So-cioty, howevor, ma somotimcs postpone this ethical view of the subject, and act with single regard to the economical welfare of the citizen, as differently determined by thelabor-system of different States. Labor either of freemen or slaves, being the cardinal necessity of society, some States choose tbo one kind, some the other; and hence arise two municipal systems widely different in their treatment of the laborer. In the slave Stato hebecorres, lo a political view, mere property. In the free State his personality is respected and dignified. It thus happens that we may, for convenience sake, and not Inaccurately, call slave States capital States, and free States labor tatcs.' . . While these competing systems last it ii to be expoctod that men, Stales, 'and nations will consider the question whether slavery is a moral, social, and political good, or a moral, social, and political evil, The question met our fathers in tho formation of our present Government, and was adjusted by thorn on the terms which form tbe compromises of the Constitution in relation to the subject of slavery, and by which compromises provision was mado for the civil representation of three-fiftbs of slaves as persons, for the delivery of ugitives held to service, and for tho prohibition of tbo foreign slave) trado after 1808. So tbe Constitution, while it does not disturb or affect tho system of capital In slaves, existing in any State under its own laws, does, at the same time, recognise every humin being, when within any exclusive sphere of Federal jurisdiction, not as capital, but as a person. : The increased consumption ofcotton- aad-the Extension of ou!V?.'.tional domain acres-the Mississippi bad for thoir effect to reinvig-orato and perpetuate slavery to a degree unforeseen by the fathers. Hence, in 1820, the question arose whether, the common interest of the whole Republic required that Arkansas, Missouri,, Kansas, and Nebraska, should bocome capital States, with all the evils and dangers of slavery, or bo labor States, with all the security, benefits, and blessings of freedom. The question cf 1820 was identical with tb.3 quostion of 18G0, and in settling the former it became apparent that the capital States possessed, in the existence of slavery, a bond of political combination, while it was hard to unite the labor States in a common policy. It was also siJcn that the labor States bad a natural loyality foi the Union, and that the capital States possessed a natural facility for alarming that loyality by threatening disunion. And, lastly, it was found that -the- capital States rofused to distinguish- betweon constitutional resistance to tho extension of slavery and unconstitutional aggressions on slavery in the States. On tbe acquisition 'of Mexican territory; in 1848, tho questions of 1820 were revived. It was supposed that they were finally adjust ed by the compromise measures of 1850. So said President Fierce, in bis inaugural speech, hut hardly bad his felicitations died away whon, in organizing the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska, it was found by the democracy, with delighted surprise, that the last grea'v wsMjroruise, so far from confirming the law of freedom of 1820, exatAly .yflwvd'iri for tho abrogation of that venerated statute; bay, that the compromise itself actually killed the spirit of the Missouri law, and devolved on Congress the duty of removing the lifeless letter' from the- national eode. The deed was uuuc, miiu L Lie , lug IJ III I.I10 uuu.il, sua- ring in tho act, under a strtonge bewilderment, went down to rise no more. ' The .fru!ts of the measure are seen in the results that bavo (followed. Perfect freedom in Kansas proved to be the Intolerable bon dago of Missouri. The Democratic party, yielding to fresh exactions, now stands on the position that both Territorial governments and Congress are incompetent to legislate against slavery in tho Territories, while they are not Only competent, but are obliged, when it' is necessary, to legislate for its protection there; -Neighboring States bavo been invaded for the purpose of extending slavory. Tho shameful traffic in savngo Africans hat been revived. ''For all this national demoralization tho Democratic party is responsible. And, in view of it, what apology can we offer to tho accusing sp'rit of an ago in which the Russirn serf is emancipated, and the Georgi an. captivo, the Nubian prisoner; and -the Abyssinian savage are lifted up to freedom by the'-succossor of Mohammed? Wo have a better excuse than tho world imagine. . It is not that we have loved freedom less, but the Union moro. 'J ho peoplo of the United States do not prefer wealth to liberty, capital to labor, African slaves to white freemen in tho national Territories and in future States, and that question is now distinctly placed be fore them by the different -policies of the Democratic and Republican parties. To doubt tho answer of the people, if only the latter are true to their principles, would be to doubt whether civilization can improve or Christianity save mankind. But, in prospect of such a contingency, we are met by menaces of disunion, with the condition annexed that they shall be executed the moment that a Republican Administration-though constitutionally elected, shall assume the Government. The excuse for these threats is found in tbe allegation that the Republican party of tho North is hostile to tho South. That party already prevails in the North, but a yet portends no aggression on the South. It. tolerates free discussion, and, if it? liberality' in this rcbect wero only reciprocated by the South, there would soon be no ground' for the obargj that It is sectional in its constituents.But the party is accused of ulterior designs. How -can a party embracing its hundreds of thousands have ahy" secret pirposeB? The labor States are wisely precluded by the Con stitution from all attempts to force iboir sys tem on, the capital States. Discussion -there will be in regard to new-ind fut'ire States, but the . whole sovereignty upon domestic concorns within tho Union i divide 1 byun--mistikeable boundaries, -whioh leave te the flleon klave Stales, as -to. tho 'eighteen-' free States, tha right of being maintained In' the peacelul orjoyment of the social system tbey prefer. . ' ' ' If the Republican party sometimes holds strong language against slavery, and predicts Its final but voluntary extinction by the capital Stot-s themselves, it does but repeat under this head the words of Jefferson. If dis- loyality and disunion threaten the public peace it is not the fault of Republicans, for they have never beon more- patient,"and have never loved the--representatives of other sections more than now.'i ' '' ' The pending question between the Demo-cratio and tbe Republican parties was 'approaching its peaceful solution by the ballot-box, when, a low months ago, a band of exceptional men, in contempt of that question and in violation of tbe Constitution, sought to subvert slavery in Virginia by force. The fact is a painful one in all its civil aspects so painful that, after tho necessary and just punishment visited on the offenders, there was need for the labor of those who have sought to prolong and widen the public distress by ill-founded criminations involving whole masses of their countrymen. y Tbe Republican party being'vlndicated from tb charge of hostility to the South, there remains no ground for apprehension with regard to the stability of that Federal Union, which is the necessity not only of our national existence but of all political activity that can hope for success. It is not to be expected that the working of o ir popular but ma-jostio scheme of Government should be unattended with human passions, but through the discipline ofsuoh trials the American peo ple will always have strength enough to pre serve unimpaired the fabric of that civil liber ty which rests on a basis as fixed and im moveable as the earth on which we tread. Amusing aud Interesting Iteminiscence of Wasbiugtou. A correspondent of the Norfolk, (Va.) Her. aid, furnished that paper the following interesting reminiscence of Washington, taken from Custis' "Private Memoirs" of the great and good man. Tho author of the "Memoirs " introduced it as one, and not the loast characteristic, among tbe many illustrations that exist of Washington's well known par ticularity and method in all his business tran sactions, and exemplifies bis habit of reducing to writing even such bargains and understand ings' as, from their apparent want of importance, would by most men bo trusted to mem-ory"only. ' For a full understanding of tho matter, it must be premised that Barter had been for some time, prior to this contract, in the service of Washington, and had on several' occasions manifested so decided a predilection Tor the bottle, as to havo established the fact of its being a confirmed habit with bim, and thus Vi ba've induced Washington to draw up the bond specifying the particular occaswfA on which Barter could get drunk, and how long at each occasion he might remain so, as well as prescribing the number of his ordinary daily drams. That Washington must have had in his cc niposition a considerable slice of sly humor, is evident from his having used for such a tri fling matter the prolix verbose, legal forms usually employed in important contracts, instead of a brief, simple memorandum j and from his having called in such a man as Tobias Lear to formally attest a bargain in which matters of no greater import were involved than a gardener's food for one year, and eigb( dollars to be expended in sprees on certain specified occasions within that period. "Articles of agreement made this twelfth day of April, Anno Domini one1 thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, by and between George Washington, Esq., of the parish Of Taro, in the county of Fairfax, State of Virginia, on the one part, and Philip Barter, gardener, on the othor witness, that the said Philip Barter, for and in consideration of the covenants hereafter melntioned,-doiH'promiso and agree to 9tfrve the- said George Washington for the-term Of one year, sis a gardener and that he will, during the said time, conduct himself soberly, diligently and honestly; and that he will faithfully and industriously per form all and every pari of his duty as a gardener to the best of his knowledge and abilities, and that he will aot at any t!mt suffer hfmsclf to-be disguised with liquor except on times hereinafter montioned. "In consideration of these things being weft and duly performed on the part of Philip Barter, the said George Washington doth agree to allow him (the said Philip) the same kind and quality of provisions he has heretofore bad, and likewise, annually, a decent suit of clothes, befitting a man in bis station', to consist of coat, vest and breeches ; V working jacket and breeches of homespun, besides two white shirts ; three check do., two linen ovi nils ; as many pairs of shoes as are necessary for him ; four dollars at Christmas, with which he may be drunk, four days and four nights ; two dollars at Easter to effect the same purpose; two dollars Whitsuntide to be drunk for two days; and a dram in the morning and a drink of grog at dinnor at noon. "For the true and faith fnl performance bf . it all and each part of those' things the parlies have hereunto set their hands this twenty third day of April, Anno Domini, 1787. His V Philip Babteb, X ' Mark. Gsoboi Washington. j 'Witness : ' ' "George A. Washington, ) "Tobias Lear." .- ' J Eclipses. An exchange ' paper says:-' There will be six eclipses this year two o, the sun, two of the moon and two of tbe Lo- cofoco party.' "The two latter will occur in October and November one. of which will be visible in Pennsylvania and the other all over the Union. Tbe house of Humphrey Owens, near Sa lem, Ohio, was burned down fast Monday, and five children burned to death. Little or Nothings. PnuNTiciAHA. The hanking privilege orig. inated in England in tho year 1000. Under it-members of Parliament used to frank "en tire bucks and packs of bounds." Indiana Journal i- If anybody would frank our old Buck, and bis pack of dogs out of the countty we'should think the franking privilege put to a most ex cellent use. j. Wo don't undertake lo guVss what will be dbno at Charleston ; but the Opposition ought to recollect that they have always been mistaken in foretelling what the Democracy will do. Democrat. The editor of the Democrat has never been able to foretell what the Democracy will do in the Presidential nominations any more than the Opposition have. In no ore instance since he belonged to the party has be predict ed aright its selection of a nominee fur the Presidency. And we freely admit thatevery nomination has been such a ono as only the devil or a witch could have foretold. A set of rowdies in Virginia burned the Hon. Henry Winter Davis in effigy last week, for bis vote in favor of Mr. Pennington. Mr. II. Winter Davis is a handsome man; if the effigy was enough liko him to ooablo a spec tator to discover tho resemblance, it was do doubt the handsomest fi'uro in tha srowd. If Winter Davis himself had boon in the place of his image, the Virginia rufiuns would have had a warm Winter. w The Legislature has passed a lawapprrp.-i-ating $18,000 to improve the minds of the iin-leclle children of the State. If such a law bad gone iuto operation a good many years ago, some of the Locofoco editors of Kentucky might have been qualified to mako better papers than they do. A Pennsylvania paper undertakes to com-paro Mr. Corwin and Mr. Toombs with each other. But there is nothing in tho two admitting of compaiison. The one is witty, good humored, gonial and eloquent, whilst the other is as gloomy, rcpulsivo and revoking S30U3 of his ghastly namesakes in the church yard. ...... ,- Millions of wild pigeons passed over Cin cinnati on Sunday. A gteat fuss is made in this State when a single bill passes over the head of ihi Governor, and we wonder what Cincinnati must have thought when so many bills pasjed over her bead, in a single day. Tho case of tho Chicago postmaster does nut Mm even yet to be settled. The President and the Postmaster General, Vita all ill mated heads of household, are still quarreling ubout.tbeir Cook. ,. An Arkansas paper siys, ''If Cash Clay were to undertake to speak in this State he would very soon have to make himself scarce." We guess that it wouldn't be the first instance of Cash made scarce in that Slate. ' A man in Illinois is said to be writing tbe life of Douglas. His life, we sup oje, may as well be written now as ever. It is lhed out, so far as aay matters of political moment are concerned. ' Virginia, as usual, is getting a huge share of public patronage. Old Brown was a terrible old lei low, but his raid upon Virginia was a trifle in compaiison with Virginia's raid upon the Treasury. Mr. S. C. Cooley, of the Southorn Argus, is unfit to bo a fruo citizen. I( H coolies were like bim, we should object to the late move' men's in favor of the suppression oftbe Cooley trade.. .. It. N a habit oftbe Locofocos to unsettle everything. Nothing will be permanently settled till we settle them. The slavery issue in Kentucky probably about 25,000 nigger babies a year. We find tbe following funny article in a late number of a daily newspaper, published in Liverpool. The British editor gives "an opinion as is an opinion" of "the 'cRisis is the united states "The boastful Republic so much vaunted by vainglorious'' Yankeci seems on the brink of a precipice, from which retreat will be disgrace, and advance destruction: ''The- very wisest of the American Statesmen Bonner, the Smith Brothers. Aaron Burr and othors are wrangling in the . House of Parliuuicn in tbe-Columbia District, over a little volume called the "Impending Crisis,' written by an Octoroon named Heifer, in which the aulhor proves that, unless the States south of the State of New Orleans agree to abolish negro slavery, the North will supply them with no more shoo-pegs, and utter financial ruin will be tbe coos;quence. The members of Parliament who quarrel over this singular book.ba- tray all the American characteristics iu their savage abuse of each "other, and sometimes tbey even come to blows. The Hon. Charles Sun.ncr, one of their number, was recently fired upon by a man named Hooks, and just before the Asia sailed, it was reported that a member earned Askins was detected in the act of throwing away, a heavy rifle, which be had previously managed to carry ia a pocket made expressly for it. ,; - "Though we have no particular faith in the stability of what the Americans call their 'Republican Institutions,' we are sorry to see our cousins working their own ruin with the edge-sword of political incompatibility. As free born Englishmen, we are bound to sympathise with the go-called 'Abolitioiists' of tbe Northern States of Georgia, Nashvillef Harper's Virginia, etc., in their efforts to- Tree tha negroes from bondage. Some of tbe gr latest men now living in America ate blacks thi .famous. James Brown was a negro, therefore the Governor of Harper's Ferry hung him. Horace Greeley, the famous jour-natint.isa negro ; their great sensation preach-, er, Henry Wood Beecher.'ia said to t'eanuad-roon. Yet despite such evidences of m African's natural equality with tho- whiies intellect as'-well as in everything else, the Southorn melrjl ors of Parliament, led on by a Mr. Sippi, are threatening to dissolve tha American Uuion if 'they; are not allowed to( bold their slaves in New York. . . There can be but one terir ination of this stato of things in America. Civil war must eventually break out among such discordant elements, and then the Union' will cease to bo forover. The Contented Farmer. ' ' ,4 Once upon a time, Frederic, King of Prussia suinaiued "Old Fritz," took a ride and' ospiod an old farmer plowing bis acre by tbe way bide, cheerily singing bis melody, ' " You must be well oil, old man," said tha King. ''Does this acre belong to you, on which you so indu-striuusly labor ? , "No, Sir," replied the farmer, who knew not that it was the King: " I am not bo rich, as that, I plow for1 wages " ' ' " How m job do you get a day," asked tbe King, further. ' '; " Eight gros'chon," (about twenty cants) said the farmer. " That's not much," repliod the King; "oaa you get along with th's ? " "Get along, and have something left." " How is that ?" . t, The farmer sinrled' and' said, " Well, If I. roust tell you, two groschen arc for myself and wife ; wilh two I pay my old debts ; two I lend away, and two I give away for the. Loid's sake.". ,,t "This is a mystery which I cannot solve,'; r.-plied the King. , 'Tuen I will solve it for you," said the far; mcr. "I have two old parents at home, who kept mo when I was weak and needed help ; I keep the m . This is my debt towards which I pay two gioschen a duy. Tho third pair of groschen, 'which I lend away, I spend for my children, that they may re;o:ye proper ir.struo-, tion. This will come bandy to me and my. wife when we get old. With tha last two groschen I maintain two sick sisters, whom I would not be compelled to keep this I give for the Lord's sake." The King woll pleased with his answer,, said: ''Bravely spokon, old man. Now I give' you something to guess. Have you ever seen me beforo ? ' "Never," said the faimer. J "In less than five minutes you shall see ma fifty times, and carry in your pocket fifty nij liken esses." . . 1 'That's a riddle " wlicb 1 MoTurjrave'i' , suid the farmer. i "Then I will do it for you," replied the. King. .''.,-', Tbiusting his hand Into his pocket and counting out fifty bran-new gold pieces into his hand, stamped with the royal likeness, be said lo the astonished farmer, who knew not what was coming V, "Tho coin is genuine, for it comes from our Lord God, and I am his' paymaster. I bid you adieu." German BefnrmtA Meuengtr. 111 ' :) ' Fun at Houc Djn't U afraid of a little fun at home, good people 1 Don't abut up your houses lest the sun should fl your carpets and your hearts, lest a hearty laugh should shake down some of tha musty old cobwebs there I If you want to fain your sons, let them think that all mirth and sooialj enjoyment must be left CO the threshold will out, when they come home at nigh I r When once a hnice is regarded as only it pfsvJe' to eat, drink and sleep in, the work Is begun' that ends in gambling houses and rtckleas degredation. Young people must aavt fa and relaxation somewhere; if they do not find it at their own hearthstones, it will be found at other less profitable placos. Therefore let tho fire bu n brightly at night, and make the houso-nt dolightfr.l with all thoM it le ar:s that pucnts so perfectly understand. ' Don't repress the buoyant spirits of your children; hall an hour of merriment around the limp and fire light at home, blots out the r- miaibranco ot many a car and annoyance' during the day, and the best safeguard they can take with them into the world is the un- t sen influetice of a br ighl little domestic anr tum. Lii Illustrated. Mnyle Sui'ur Making "ti Tbe season for making maplo sugar bar djw arrived, and we presume that many farm -. ers have already coumead the buUnesV.' This taction ot the country is, admirably adapted to the bu:sies, npon all farms where the maple grows. Presuming that all who are going into tbe business htft 'Completed" their, preparations, we copy the following congest'" i ons concerning tbe manufacture from ' tha Scientific Arthan: . , 4 ' , ; " It is iinpo3ible to make goo I maple sugar . unless tfi iap is bjihd"jloofl after it root. If it is allowed to tour in the least, (b iron vessels which it ia boiled in will . darker the color of the r-Dgtr, giving it a disagreabl. tiste, and very injurious to the health to thow. who uj it. Never allow the sap to barn 6a the top of tbe kettle, and every time you fill up, wash it off. You can remedy thk by Mtling iaan arch, leaving a part of your kettle down so low aa the lire of division between flr and no fire. Never allow your' syrup U stand i overnight.. Make your tyrop ao thick that one quit will make oo pounl of sugar, and' let it gel .perfectly cool befora you aagar off. Stir ip 4 little milk ; then keep It. over ' moderate fire Oolil it U skimmed, and trt cartful not lo burn it afterward. Stir the aogar) while it is cooling, either perfectly dry and. broken,, or make it into luupa at ileMura- j Never pour hjtsugii i.ito Wuodtn Me't .... A "

i. ...... 1! Wv .- I""" nt mm MWw mm n Me- f MOUNT VERNON, OHIO, SATUlltiAY MORNING, MARCH 17, i860. VOL. VI. NO w 'i : i 4 a. f ! 4 I. Ai v v n i' Pictures in- the Coals. Sitting by myplonant Bra light, ' In tbo dark and dull Dooouibor, Making pictures In tho ashes Of a slowly dying ember ' Lol from out tho ashos rising, , Touched at by die sunset gloami, Is tbo villn-go of iny childhood That I oversee in droams. Thorobotwccn tho rovri of moplo, i Is tho rood an! gram grown street; Thoro, bohind tho shadowy branohos, Stand tho houses, plain and noat. Thoro, bonpath tha, xlne oovorod porches, Arc forma that never more will oomo, For those hoarts havo oeasod their boating, And those Hps are cold and dumb. But upon the sunny hill-aids I Whoro tho villugo ohurch doos stand, The Bhadow of tho spire ia pointing As tho finger of a guiding hand-Wandering ever In the graro-yard From morning rod till sot of sun, 1 Pointing whoro wo, too, shall slumber MThon our littlo life is dono. Yonder U tho dim, bluo mountain ; Thoro upon the plain below, Stands tho farm-houso, with Ua window Blaiing in tho aunaot glow. ' A mist now rising from tho valley i . Shuts the blue stroam from my sight, But I know upon Ha aurfaco Float tho water lillics whito. Tondor are. the clovor moadows, Whoro the twinkling air is soon; There my happy little school-mates, Flaying oh tho villigo groon 1 Forovor ohildion still I lovo them Tears ore filling fast my oyos Theburning embor now has fallen; My rillago in the ashes lios. 0,iu vain wo'ro.ovor striving Af tor things boyond our reachj Littlo hooding all tholossons Lifo's most simple things may toach ; Littlo thinking whatraro pleasures Simple joys may bring our souls-Even fading, dying embers Even picturos in tho coals. THE CABIN1 BOY. A SHIMASTEB'S STORY. On my way across the Sound I (til in with two old sea captains John Streeter and Asa Morton with whom I bad some slight acquaintance. Captain Streeter was about three score, and had followed tha sea during most of his lilb. Morton was considerably younger, but still a seaman of much experience. The subject of the abolition ol flogping to our navy came up in Course ol tOTvr-rstoa and fjapt. Morton expressed himself very decidedly in favor nf that timo honored institution, the cat-o'-oinc-tnils. r i " I am not prepared t,o say,;1 remarked Capt. Streeter, in reply J' that tho condition of our man-o'-wars-men will be in every caso benefitted by the abolition o( Hogging, though I am suvo that it might be so. I mean that the officers have it in their power to do away with all kinds of punishment. I mean ol course, for all such offences as aro usually punished on ship-board." " For my part,"' returned Morton, " I shouldn't caro to take command of a ship, if tho power of punishing refractory seamen as I thought proW wero taken from me." "Well," paid .Capt. Streeter, "I used to think just so, In fa', there wero but few masters more passionate or severe than I was. Men used to run away from wo, and on moro than one occasion iny life has IvJon in danger from the violence; of men whom I had abused. . I used the cat .and the ropo'a end almost as freely as I used my tongue ; and I usod to wonder how it . happened that I always had the luck to got, such bad men. When I wap aTxmt forty years of ago I look . .nmmand of the slim Petersham, bho was an-old cralt,.0ni. had seen full as much sorv-,' ica it's Bb capable of seeing with eafety. ' But her ovrters wore willing to trust a valua-' ble cargo in her, so I wouldn't refuse to trust ' myself. We were bound to Liverpool, and nothing unusual happened until about tho ' -eighth day out, when wo ran foul of a small icoberg. It was early in the morning, beforo sunriso.and not above six or eight feet of ico was above water.it having nearly all beon melted in tho warm waters of the Gulf Stroam. I did not think we had sustained much inju ry, for the shock was slight; but I was very angry and gave the look-out a severo punishment, without stopping to enquire whether he could have seen tho berg in time to escape it. C , My cabin-boy was named Jack Withers. He was fourteen years plcl and this was his first voyage. I had taken him from a widowed mother, and haol promised her that I would see him well treated -that was, if he behaved himself. He was a bright, quick, intelligent fad, but I soon made myself boliev-that be bad an awful disposition. ' I fancied - that he was the most stubborn picoe of hue inanity I had ever come across. 1 made up . my mind be bad. never been properly governed, and resolved to break him in. I told him I would break his temper before -I had done ' with him. Ia reply he told me I might kill him ii I liked ; and I floggod him with the end of the mizzen-top-gal!ant halliards till he could hardly stand. I asked him if he" bad got enough, and he told me I might flog him more if I wished'it. I felt a strong luclina- . tion to throw the boy overboard, but at that moment be stnggore'd hick against the mizzon-mvt from absolute weakness, and I left him. When I reasoned calmly about the boy's disposition, I wa9 forced to acknowledge that he was one of the smartest and most faithful lads I had ever seen. When I asked him to do anything he would be off like rocket but when I roughly ordered him to do it, then cam tha dtspositiov wilh" which' I found halt. , t , , Oue duy when it was vory near noon, I spoke to him and told him to go below and bring up my quadrant. He was looking over tbo quarter rail, and I knew be did not hear me, and the next time I spoke I rippod out 'an oath, and intimated if ho did not movo I would holphim. "I did'n hear ye," ho said, with an independent tono. ; . " No. words," said I, . , " I s'poso I can speak," he retorted, moving slowly towards the companion; way. His looks, words, and the slow, caroless manner in which ho . moved, fired me in a moment, and I grasped him by the collar. " Speak to me again like that, and I'll flog you within an inch of your life," said I fierce- ly. " , . , " You can flog away," he replied, firm and undaunted as a rock. And I did flog him. I caught up the end of a rope, and beat bim until my arm fairly ached, but he never cvon winced. "How's that ?" said I. " There's a littlo more life in mo you'd better flog put," was (he reply. And I beat him again. I beat him till he sank .from my hand against the rail; and then I sent one of the men for my quadrant. When it came and I bad adjusted it for' my observation,, I found that the sun was already passed the meridian, and that I was too lato. this added fuel tq the fire of my madness, and quickly seizing tho lad by the collar, lied bim to the hatchway, and had the hatch taken off- I then thrust him down andisworo I would keep him there till his stubbornness was broken. ; The hatch was then put on, and I went into tho cabin. I suffered a good deal that afternoon,, not with any compunctions for what I had done, :but with, my own temper and bitterness. It mado me mad to thick I could not conquer. that boy that I could not broak down bis cool,:stern opposition. But I will do it," I said tp, myself, " by tho heav ens above me, I'll starve him into it, or be shall dio under the operation." . - After supper I went to the hatchway, and called out to him, but he ioturned Bio-no answer. So I closed the hatch and went away-at ten o'clock I called again ; I got no answer. I might have thought that the Hogging had taken away his senses, had not some. .of the men assured me that they bad beard ihiai, not an hour before, talking to hiinsolf. I diil not trouble bim again till morning., A f'.cr break fast I went to the hatchw ay and called out to him once more. I. "heard nothing from bim nor could I see him I had not eeen him since r, pt'uim down there. I called out several times but he would make no reply and yet the same men told me they had heard him talking that very morning. Ho seemed to be calling on then for help, but bo would not ask for me I meant to break him into it " He'll beg beforo he'll starve," I thought, and so determined to let him stay there. I sup posed that he bad cradled forward tothe foro-castle bulkhead, in order to make the sailors hear bim. Sumo of the men asked leavo to go down and look for him, but I refused. I threatened to punish the first man that dared ' down. . At noon I wont again, and as no am not answer me Ibis time, I resoJved that he should come to tho hatehway and ask for me ere I went any morq. . The, day passed away and when evening came again I began to foe start led. I thought of the many good qualities the bpy had, and of his widowed mother. . Ho had heen in the hold, thirty-six hoursand all of forty , without food or drink. Ho must bo too weak to cry out now. It was hard for me to give, up, but if ho died there from absoluto statvation, it might go harder with me still. So at length I made up my mind to go and see him., ..It was not quite sundown whon I had the batch taken off, and I jumped down upon the boxes alone. , A little way, forward I saw a, space where Jack might easily, havo , gone down, and to that point I drawled on my hands and knees. I called out there, but could got no.answer. A short distanco farther wos a. wide space, which I had entirely forgotten, but which 1 now remembered bad been loft open on account of a break in tho flooring of tho hold, which would havo let everything that might havo been stowed there rest directly upon the thin plank of tho ship. , To this place I made my, way, and looked down I heard the splashing of water, and thought I could detect a sound like the in coming of a tiny jet-or stroam. At first I could see nothing, but as soon as I became used to the dim light, I could distinguish the faint outlines of the boy at some distance bo-low roe. . Ho seemed to be sitting on the broken floor, with his feet stretched out against the cask. I called out to him and thought be looked up. " Jack, are you thore 7" And ho answered me in a faint, weary tono "Yes, help me ! ' For heaven's sake, help mef Bring men and bring lanternthe ship has sprung a leak !'' I hesitated, and bo added in a more eager lone "-lake haste I will try and hold it till you come back." ti t . I waited to bear no more, but nurnea on deck as soon as possible, and returned with a lantern and three men. I leaped down beside t!ie boy,' and could scarcely believe the evi dence of my own senses. , Three of the tim bers were completely worm-eaten to the very heart, and one of the outer planks bad been broken and would burst in any moment the boy might loave it, whose feet were braced gainst the cask before bim. Half dozen little jets of water were streaming in about bim, and he was wet to the skin. I saw that the plank must burst tbe moment the strain was removed from it, to I made my men brace thomVolves against it before I lifted him up. Other mci were called down with planks, and spikes and adzes, and with much care and trouble, we finally succeeded in stopping tho leak, and averting danger. Tho plank which had been stove' in. was about six feet long by eight Inches wido, and would have let in a stream of water of that capacity. It would have beon beyond our reach long cro we could have discovered ittnd would bavo sunk us in a very short time. .1 kuew it must be whero the icoberg struck us. Jack Withers was taken to tho cabin, and thore he managed to : tell his story, Shortly after I put him in tho bold he crawled forward, and when he became Used to .the dim glimmer that came through tha deed-lights looked about for a snug place to lie, for bis limbs wero sore. Ho went to sleep, and then he heard a faint sound, like water streaming through a small bole. He went to tho open place in the cargo, and looked down, and ho was sure that he saw a small jet of water springing up from tho ship's bottom, Ho Laped down, and in a few minutes found that tho timbers had given wholly away, and that the stream was increasing in -size. Ho placed bis hand upon the plank, and found it broken, and discovered that the pressure of the water without was pressing it inward.. He had enso enough to see that if it gained an inch moro, it must all go. and the ship be lost, and perhaps all bsnds perish. And Lo saw, too, that if he could keep tho broken plank in its plank in its place he might stop tho incoming flood. So be sat himself upon it, and braced his feet against the cask, and then called for help, But he was so far away, so low down, with such a dense mass of the cargo, about bim, that his voic6 scarcely reached other ears than his own. Some of the men heard hint but thought he was talking to himself. And there he sat, with his feet braced, for four-and twooty dreary hours, with the water spurting in tiny streams all over bim, drenching him to. the skin. He had thought several times 'of going to the hatchway and calling for help ; but he. know that the broken plank would be forced in If he left it, for he could ftel it heave beneath him. His strength was failing him his limbs were racked with pain but he would not give up. I asked him If ho should hbt hare given up if' I had not como as I did. He answered' that he ptMt not have done it while V irl life, in him. He said he thought not of himself 'ia was ready to die but be would save the rest if he'conld and he had saved us, surely saved us all from a watery grave." ' ' That boy lay sick almost unto death; but I nursed-him with my own hands nursed him. all through his delirium ; and when his reason returned, and he cdu'ld sit up and talk, I bo wed; my self before him, and humbly asked his pardon for all the wrong I had done bim. He threw his arms about ray neck, and -told me if I would bD good to him, he would neve r give me cause for offense ; and added as he sat up ogain ' I am not a coward I could n't b) a dog." ! - - : ;: From that hour I never forgot thono words ; and from that hour I havo never struck a blow on board my ship. - I mako tbem ' feel that they are men that I so regard them, and that I wish to make them as comfortable and happy as possible ; and I havo uot failed to gain their respect and confidence. I give no undue license, but make my Crew feel that they have a friend and superior in the: same person. For nino years I sailed in three different ships, with the same crew. A mart couldn't bo hired to loave mo savo for nn officer's berth. '.. And Jack Withers romained with me thir teen years. He was my cabin boy; o no of tho foremost hands; my second mate : and tho- la)t time ho sailed with me he refused tho command of a new barquo becauso he would not lo separated from me. But he is captain now, and one of the best this country ever afforded. Such, gentlomen, is my experience in government and discipline on shipboard."i ,. Senator Suwurd'n Speech. Tho following excellent condensation of tbe great speech of Senator. Seward in tho Senate .on Wednesday of last week, wo cut from tho National . Intelligencer. It presents tho salient points in the argument of the great Statesman : . Mr. Soward in the presence of a listening' auditory thronging all parts of the gallery. . Ho commenced bis speech by stating that it would bo his misfortuno and not his fault if, ;n seeking -to intorpret tha fevorish dreams which now disturb the country, he should tend to foment rather than allay the national excitement. It would be a source of shame as well of sorrow if tho American peoplo co'd hot.combine prudenco.witb humanity, in iljcir conduct concerning tho one disturbing subject of slavery. AVhorercr slavery.: exists (unless it be for crime) there must of necessity arise, in every discussion relating to that institution, ques tion of its rightfulness or wrongfulness. So-cioty, howevor, ma somotimcs postpone this ethical view of the subject, and act with single regard to the economical welfare of the citizen, as differently determined by thelabor-system of different States. Labor either of freemen or slaves, being the cardinal necessity of society, some States choose tbo one kind, some the other; and hence arise two municipal systems widely different in their treatment of the laborer. In the slave Stato hebecorres, lo a political view, mere property. In the free State his personality is respected and dignified. It thus happens that we may, for convenience sake, and not Inaccurately, call slave States capital States, and free States labor tatcs.' . . While these competing systems last it ii to be expoctod that men, Stales, 'and nations will consider the question whether slavery is a moral, social, and political good, or a moral, social, and political evil, The question met our fathers in tho formation of our present Government, and was adjusted by thorn on the terms which form tbe compromises of the Constitution in relation to the subject of slavery, and by which compromises provision was mado for the civil representation of three-fiftbs of slaves as persons, for the delivery of ugitives held to service, and for tho prohibition of tbo foreign slave) trado after 1808. So tbe Constitution, while it does not disturb or affect tho system of capital In slaves, existing in any State under its own laws, does, at the same time, recognise every humin being, when within any exclusive sphere of Federal jurisdiction, not as capital, but as a person. : The increased consumption ofcotton- aad-the Extension of ou!V?.'.tional domain acres-the Mississippi bad for thoir effect to reinvig-orato and perpetuate slavery to a degree unforeseen by the fathers. Hence, in 1820, the question arose whether, the common interest of the whole Republic required that Arkansas, Missouri,, Kansas, and Nebraska, should bocome capital States, with all the evils and dangers of slavery, or bo labor States, with all the security, benefits, and blessings of freedom. The question cf 1820 was identical with tb.3 quostion of 18G0, and in settling the former it became apparent that the capital States possessed, in the existence of slavery, a bond of political combination, while it was hard to unite the labor States in a common policy. It was also siJcn that the labor States bad a natural loyality foi the Union, and that the capital States possessed a natural facility for alarming that loyality by threatening disunion. And, lastly, it was found that -the- capital States rofused to distinguish- betweon constitutional resistance to tho extension of slavery and unconstitutional aggressions on slavery in the States. On tbe acquisition 'of Mexican territory; in 1848, tho questions of 1820 were revived. It was supposed that they were finally adjust ed by the compromise measures of 1850. So said President Fierce, in bis inaugural speech, hut hardly bad his felicitations died away whon, in organizing the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska, it was found by the democracy, with delighted surprise, that the last grea'v wsMjroruise, so far from confirming the law of freedom of 1820, exatAly .yflwvd'iri for tho abrogation of that venerated statute; bay, that the compromise itself actually killed the spirit of the Missouri law, and devolved on Congress the duty of removing the lifeless letter' from the- national eode. The deed was uuuc, miiu L Lie , lug IJ III I.I10 uuu.il, sua- ring in tho act, under a strtonge bewilderment, went down to rise no more. ' The .fru!ts of the measure are seen in the results that bavo (followed. Perfect freedom in Kansas proved to be the Intolerable bon dago of Missouri. The Democratic party, yielding to fresh exactions, now stands on the position that both Territorial governments and Congress are incompetent to legislate against slavery in tho Territories, while they are not Only competent, but are obliged, when it' is necessary, to legislate for its protection there; -Neighboring States bavo been invaded for the purpose of extending slavory. Tho shameful traffic in savngo Africans hat been revived. ''For all this national demoralization tho Democratic party is responsible. And, in view of it, what apology can we offer to tho accusing sp'rit of an ago in which the Russirn serf is emancipated, and the Georgi an. captivo, the Nubian prisoner; and -the Abyssinian savage are lifted up to freedom by the'-succossor of Mohammed? Wo have a better excuse than tho world imagine. . It is not that we have loved freedom less, but the Union moro. 'J ho peoplo of the United States do not prefer wealth to liberty, capital to labor, African slaves to white freemen in tho national Territories and in future States, and that question is now distinctly placed be fore them by the different -policies of the Democratic and Republican parties. To doubt tho answer of the people, if only the latter are true to their principles, would be to doubt whether civilization can improve or Christianity save mankind. But, in prospect of such a contingency, we are met by menaces of disunion, with the condition annexed that they shall be executed the moment that a Republican Administration-though constitutionally elected, shall assume the Government. The excuse for these threats is found in tbe allegation that the Republican party of tho North is hostile to tho South. That party already prevails in the North, but a yet portends no aggression on the South. It. tolerates free discussion, and, if it? liberality' in this rcbect wero only reciprocated by the South, there would soon be no ground' for the obargj that It is sectional in its constituents.But the party is accused of ulterior designs. How -can a party embracing its hundreds of thousands have ahy" secret pirposeB? The labor States are wisely precluded by the Con stitution from all attempts to force iboir sys tem on, the capital States. Discussion -there will be in regard to new-ind fut'ire States, but the . whole sovereignty upon domestic concorns within tho Union i divide 1 byun--mistikeable boundaries, -whioh leave te the flleon klave Stales, as -to. tho 'eighteen-' free States, tha right of being maintained In' the peacelul orjoyment of the social system tbey prefer. . ' ' ' If the Republican party sometimes holds strong language against slavery, and predicts Its final but voluntary extinction by the capital Stot-s themselves, it does but repeat under this head the words of Jefferson. If dis- loyality and disunion threaten the public peace it is not the fault of Republicans, for they have never beon more- patient,"and have never loved the--representatives of other sections more than now.'i ' '' ' The pending question between the Demo-cratio and tbe Republican parties was 'approaching its peaceful solution by the ballot-box, when, a low months ago, a band of exceptional men, in contempt of that question and in violation of tbe Constitution, sought to subvert slavery in Virginia by force. The fact is a painful one in all its civil aspects so painful that, after tho necessary and just punishment visited on the offenders, there was need for the labor of those who have sought to prolong and widen the public distress by ill-founded criminations involving whole masses of their countrymen. y Tbe Republican party being'vlndicated from tb charge of hostility to the South, there remains no ground for apprehension with regard to the stability of that Federal Union, which is the necessity not only of our national existence but of all political activity that can hope for success. It is not to be expected that the working of o ir popular but ma-jostio scheme of Government should be unattended with human passions, but through the discipline ofsuoh trials the American peo ple will always have strength enough to pre serve unimpaired the fabric of that civil liber ty which rests on a basis as fixed and im moveable as the earth on which we tread. Amusing aud Interesting Iteminiscence of Wasbiugtou. A correspondent of the Norfolk, (Va.) Her. aid, furnished that paper the following interesting reminiscence of Washington, taken from Custis' "Private Memoirs" of the great and good man. Tho author of the "Memoirs " introduced it as one, and not the loast characteristic, among tbe many illustrations that exist of Washington's well known par ticularity and method in all his business tran sactions, and exemplifies bis habit of reducing to writing even such bargains and understand ings' as, from their apparent want of importance, would by most men bo trusted to mem-ory"only. ' For a full understanding of tho matter, it must be premised that Barter had been for some time, prior to this contract, in the service of Washington, and had on several' occasions manifested so decided a predilection Tor the bottle, as to havo established the fact of its being a confirmed habit with bim, and thus Vi ba've induced Washington to draw up the bond specifying the particular occaswfA on which Barter could get drunk, and how long at each occasion he might remain so, as well as prescribing the number of his ordinary daily drams. That Washington must have had in his cc niposition a considerable slice of sly humor, is evident from his having used for such a tri fling matter the prolix verbose, legal forms usually employed in important contracts, instead of a brief, simple memorandum j and from his having called in such a man as Tobias Lear to formally attest a bargain in which matters of no greater import were involved than a gardener's food for one year, and eigb( dollars to be expended in sprees on certain specified occasions within that period. "Articles of agreement made this twelfth day of April, Anno Domini one1 thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, by and between George Washington, Esq., of the parish Of Taro, in the county of Fairfax, State of Virginia, on the one part, and Philip Barter, gardener, on the othor witness, that the said Philip Barter, for and in consideration of the covenants hereafter melntioned,-doiH'promiso and agree to 9tfrve the- said George Washington for the-term Of one year, sis a gardener and that he will, during the said time, conduct himself soberly, diligently and honestly; and that he will faithfully and industriously per form all and every pari of his duty as a gardener to the best of his knowledge and abilities, and that he will aot at any t!mt suffer hfmsclf to-be disguised with liquor except on times hereinafter montioned. "In consideration of these things being weft and duly performed on the part of Philip Barter, the said George Washington doth agree to allow him (the said Philip) the same kind and quality of provisions he has heretofore bad, and likewise, annually, a decent suit of clothes, befitting a man in bis station', to consist of coat, vest and breeches ; V working jacket and breeches of homespun, besides two white shirts ; three check do., two linen ovi nils ; as many pairs of shoes as are necessary for him ; four dollars at Christmas, with which he may be drunk, four days and four nights ; two dollars at Easter to effect the same purpose; two dollars Whitsuntide to be drunk for two days; and a dram in the morning and a drink of grog at dinnor at noon. "For the true and faith fnl performance bf . it all and each part of those' things the parlies have hereunto set their hands this twenty third day of April, Anno Domini, 1787. His V Philip Babteb, X ' Mark. Gsoboi Washington. j 'Witness : ' ' "George A. Washington, ) "Tobias Lear." .- ' J Eclipses. An exchange ' paper says:-' There will be six eclipses this year two o, the sun, two of the moon and two of tbe Lo- cofoco party.' "The two latter will occur in October and November one. of which will be visible in Pennsylvania and the other all over the Union. Tbe house of Humphrey Owens, near Sa lem, Ohio, was burned down fast Monday, and five children burned to death. Little or Nothings. PnuNTiciAHA. The hanking privilege orig. inated in England in tho year 1000. Under it-members of Parliament used to frank "en tire bucks and packs of bounds." Indiana Journal i- If anybody would frank our old Buck, and bis pack of dogs out of the countty we'should think the franking privilege put to a most ex cellent use. j. Wo don't undertake lo guVss what will be dbno at Charleston ; but the Opposition ought to recollect that they have always been mistaken in foretelling what the Democracy will do. Democrat. The editor of the Democrat has never been able to foretell what the Democracy will do in the Presidential nominations any more than the Opposition have. In no ore instance since he belonged to the party has be predict ed aright its selection of a nominee fur the Presidency. And we freely admit thatevery nomination has been such a ono as only the devil or a witch could have foretold. A set of rowdies in Virginia burned the Hon. Henry Winter Davis in effigy last week, for bis vote in favor of Mr. Pennington. Mr. II. Winter Davis is a handsome man; if the effigy was enough liko him to ooablo a spec tator to discover tho resemblance, it was do doubt the handsomest fi'uro in tha srowd. If Winter Davis himself had boon in the place of his image, the Virginia rufiuns would have had a warm Winter. w The Legislature has passed a lawapprrp.-i-ating $18,000 to improve the minds of the iin-leclle children of the State. If such a law bad gone iuto operation a good many years ago, some of the Locofoco editors of Kentucky might have been qualified to mako better papers than they do. A Pennsylvania paper undertakes to com-paro Mr. Corwin and Mr. Toombs with each other. But there is nothing in tho two admitting of compaiison. The one is witty, good humored, gonial and eloquent, whilst the other is as gloomy, rcpulsivo and revoking S30U3 of his ghastly namesakes in the church yard. ...... ,- Millions of wild pigeons passed over Cin cinnati on Sunday. A gteat fuss is made in this State when a single bill passes over the head of ihi Governor, and we wonder what Cincinnati must have thought when so many bills pasjed over her bead, in a single day. Tho case of tho Chicago postmaster does nut Mm even yet to be settled. The President and the Postmaster General, Vita all ill mated heads of household, are still quarreling ubout.tbeir Cook. ,. An Arkansas paper siys, ''If Cash Clay were to undertake to speak in this State he would very soon have to make himself scarce." We guess that it wouldn't be the first instance of Cash made scarce in that Slate. ' A man in Illinois is said to be writing tbe life of Douglas. His life, we sup oje, may as well be written now as ever. It is lhed out, so far as aay matters of political moment are concerned. ' Virginia, as usual, is getting a huge share of public patronage. Old Brown was a terrible old lei low, but his raid upon Virginia was a trifle in compaiison with Virginia's raid upon the Treasury. Mr. S. C. Cooley, of the Southorn Argus, is unfit to bo a fruo citizen. I( H coolies were like bim, we should object to the late move' men's in favor of the suppression oftbe Cooley trade.. .. It. N a habit oftbe Locofocos to unsettle everything. Nothing will be permanently settled till we settle them. The slavery issue in Kentucky probably about 25,000 nigger babies a year. We find tbe following funny article in a late number of a daily newspaper, published in Liverpool. The British editor gives "an opinion as is an opinion" of "the 'cRisis is the united states "The boastful Republic so much vaunted by vainglorious'' Yankeci seems on the brink of a precipice, from which retreat will be disgrace, and advance destruction: ''The- very wisest of the American Statesmen Bonner, the Smith Brothers. Aaron Burr and othors are wrangling in the . House of Parliuuicn in tbe-Columbia District, over a little volume called the "Impending Crisis,' written by an Octoroon named Heifer, in which the aulhor proves that, unless the States south of the State of New Orleans agree to abolish negro slavery, the North will supply them with no more shoo-pegs, and utter financial ruin will be tbe coos;quence. The members of Parliament who quarrel over this singular book.ba- tray all the American characteristics iu their savage abuse of each "other, and sometimes tbey even come to blows. The Hon. Charles Sun.ncr, one of their number, was recently fired upon by a man named Hooks, and just before the Asia sailed, it was reported that a member earned Askins was detected in the act of throwing away, a heavy rifle, which be had previously managed to carry ia a pocket made expressly for it. ,; - "Though we have no particular faith in the stability of what the Americans call their 'Republican Institutions,' we are sorry to see our cousins working their own ruin with the edge-sword of political incompatibility. As free born Englishmen, we are bound to sympathise with the go-called 'Abolitioiists' of tbe Northern States of Georgia, Nashvillef Harper's Virginia, etc., in their efforts to- Tree tha negroes from bondage. Some of tbe gr latest men now living in America ate blacks thi .famous. James Brown was a negro, therefore the Governor of Harper's Ferry hung him. Horace Greeley, the famous jour-natint.isa negro ; their great sensation preach-, er, Henry Wood Beecher.'ia said to t'eanuad-roon. Yet despite such evidences of m African's natural equality with tho- whiies intellect as'-well as in everything else, the Southorn melrjl ors of Parliament, led on by a Mr. Sippi, are threatening to dissolve tha American Uuion if 'they; are not allowed to( bold their slaves in New York. . . There can be but one terir ination of this stato of things in America. Civil war must eventually break out among such discordant elements, and then the Union' will cease to bo forover. The Contented Farmer. ' ' ,4 Once upon a time, Frederic, King of Prussia suinaiued "Old Fritz," took a ride and' ospiod an old farmer plowing bis acre by tbe way bide, cheerily singing bis melody, ' " You must be well oil, old man," said tha King. ''Does this acre belong to you, on which you so indu-striuusly labor ? , "No, Sir," replied the farmer, who knew not that it was the King: " I am not bo rich, as that, I plow for1 wages " ' ' " How m job do you get a day," asked tbe King, further. ' '; " Eight gros'chon," (about twenty cants) said the farmer. " That's not much," repliod the King; "oaa you get along with th's ? " "Get along, and have something left." " How is that ?" . t, The farmer sinrled' and' said, " Well, If I. roust tell you, two groschen arc for myself and wife ; wilh two I pay my old debts ; two I lend away, and two I give away for the. Loid's sake.". ,,t "This is a mystery which I cannot solve,'; r.-plied the King. , 'Tuen I will solve it for you," said the far; mcr. "I have two old parents at home, who kept mo when I was weak and needed help ; I keep the m . This is my debt towards which I pay two gioschen a duy. Tho third pair of groschen, 'which I lend away, I spend for my children, that they may re;o:ye proper ir.struo-, tion. This will come bandy to me and my. wife when we get old. With tha last two groschen I maintain two sick sisters, whom I would not be compelled to keep this I give for the Lord's sake." The King woll pleased with his answer,, said: ''Bravely spokon, old man. Now I give' you something to guess. Have you ever seen me beforo ? ' "Never," said the faimer. J "In less than five minutes you shall see ma fifty times, and carry in your pocket fifty nij liken esses." . . 1 'That's a riddle " wlicb 1 MoTurjrave'i' , suid the farmer. i "Then I will do it for you," replied the. King. .''.,-', Tbiusting his hand Into his pocket and counting out fifty bran-new gold pieces into his hand, stamped with the royal likeness, be said lo the astonished farmer, who knew not what was coming V, "Tho coin is genuine, for it comes from our Lord God, and I am his' paymaster. I bid you adieu." German BefnrmtA Meuengtr. 111 ' :) ' Fun at Houc Djn't U afraid of a little fun at home, good people 1 Don't abut up your houses lest the sun should fl your carpets and your hearts, lest a hearty laugh should shake down some of tha musty old cobwebs there I If you want to fain your sons, let them think that all mirth and sooialj enjoyment must be left CO the threshold will out, when they come home at nigh I r When once a hnice is regarded as only it pfsvJe' to eat, drink and sleep in, the work Is begun' that ends in gambling houses and rtckleas degredation. Young people must aavt fa and relaxation somewhere; if they do not find it at their own hearthstones, it will be found at other less profitable placos. Therefore let tho fire bu n brightly at night, and make the houso-nt dolightfr.l with all thoM it le ar:s that pucnts so perfectly understand. ' Don't repress the buoyant spirits of your children; hall an hour of merriment around the limp and fire light at home, blots out the r- miaibranco ot many a car and annoyance' during the day, and the best safeguard they can take with them into the world is the un- t sen influetice of a br ighl little domestic anr tum. Lii Illustrated. Mnyle Sui'ur Making "ti Tbe season for making maplo sugar bar djw arrived, and we presume that many farm -. ers have already coumead the buUnesV.' This taction ot the country is, admirably adapted to the bu:sies, npon all farms where the maple grows. Presuming that all who are going into tbe business htft 'Completed" their, preparations, we copy the following congest'" i ons concerning tbe manufacture from ' tha Scientific Arthan: . , 4 ' , ; " It is iinpo3ible to make goo I maple sugar . unless tfi iap is bjihd"jloofl after it root. If it is allowed to tour in the least, (b iron vessels which it ia boiled in will . darker the color of the r-Dgtr, giving it a disagreabl. tiste, and very injurious to the health to thow. who uj it. Never allow the sap to barn 6a the top of tbe kettle, and every time you fill up, wash it off. You can remedy thk by Mtling iaan arch, leaving a part of your kettle down so low aa the lire of division between flr and no fire. Never allow your' syrup U stand i overnight.. Make your tyrop ao thick that one quit will make oo pounl of sugar, and' let it gel .perfectly cool befora you aagar off. Stir ip 4 little milk ; then keep It. over ' moderate fire Oolil it U skimmed, and trt cartful not lo burn it afterward. Stir the aogar) while it is cooling, either perfectly dry and. broken,, or make it into luupa at ileMura- j Never pour hjtsugii i.ito Wuodtn Me't .... A "